351 Food Industry Complex
Lincoln, NE 68583-0919
E-Mail: rgoodman2@unl.edu
Teaching and/or Extension Activities:
Faculty at workshops on the safety assessment of genetically modified crops:
Allergenicity assessment tools: bioinformatics, human serum IgE testing, pepsin digestion and animal models. Five day-workshops on the safety assessment of foods derived from GM crops. AGBIOS and ICMR, Hyderabad and Lucknow, India, Sept-Oct. 2006.
Food and feed safety assessment of genetically modified crops: allergenicity and toxicity. Workshop on GM crop safety. Taiwan. 12-13 Sept. 2006.
Research Area:
1) Refining methods and evaluation criteria for regulatory assessments of the potential allergenicity of genetically modified crops.
2) Identification of food allergens.
Five Selected Publications:
Goodman, RE. (2006). Practical and predictive bioinformatics methods for the identification of poentitially cross-reactive protein matches. Mol. Nutr. Food Res. 50:655-660.
Goodman, RE, Wise J. (2006). Predicting the allergenicity of novel proteins in genetically modified organisms. Food Allergy, SJ Maleki, AW Burks, RM Helm eds. 2006. American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington, DC.
Chen L, Hefle SL, Taylor SL, Swoboda I, Goodman RE. (2006). Detecting fish parvalbumin with commercial mouse monoclonal anti-frog parvalbumin IgG. J Agric Food Chem 54(15):5577-5582.
Chen L, Lucas JS, Hourihane JOB, Lindemann J, Taylor SL, Goodman RE. (2006). Evaluation of IgE binding to proteins of hardy (Actinidia arguta), gold (Actinidia chinensis) and green (Actinidia deliciosa) kiwifruits and processed hardy kiwifruit concentrate, using sera of individuals with food allergies to green kiwifruit. Food and Chem Toxicol. 44(7):1100-1107.
Goodman RE, Hefle SL, Taylor SL, van Ree R. (2005). Assessing genetically modified crops to minimize the risk of increased food allergy: A review. Int Arch Allergy Immunol. 137(153-166).
